Unexplained Mysteries of The World- The Pyramids of Egypt
As unexplained mysteries go, the pyramids of Giza in Egypt really are
something special. We still don't really know how the Egyptians built
the largest pyramid of all, known as the Great Pyramid of Cheops (or
Khufu), some 5,000 years ago. Remember, this was even before the
invention of the wheel!
The Pyramid of Cheops is the size of a 40-storey building and covers an area big enough to fit 10 football fields in it. More
than 2 million stone blocks were used to make the pyramid, each
weighing 2-5 tons and cut from a distant limestone quarry on the other
side of the Nile. Experts reckon it took 400,000 men some 20 years to
complete.
Engineering feats aside, there are still some
reported unexplained mysteries going on at the Pyramid of Cheops. In the
1940s, a French hardware dealer spotted some mummified animals exactly
one-third up the height of the pyramid. The remarkable thing was they
showed no signs of decomposition. He deducted that the pyramid shape was
responsible for preserving these creatures.
Later, a Czech
radio engineer conducted a series of experiments in which he placed a
brand new razor blade inside a 1:1,000 scale model of Cheops. He aligned
his pyramid on a north-south axis exactly like the real thing. After
getting 50 shaves from the razor, he was forced to conclude that it was
only getting sharper from being inside the pyramid. It took him 10 years
to obtain a patent for this device, which he claims still has no
scientific explanation today.
But is it a genuine unexplained
mystery - or an embellishment of the truth? This is another way that
stories become legends which, because they are so famous, people believe
there simply must be something to it. If "Pyramid Power" were a real,
observable effect, it would surely have been commercialized by now. (It
hasn't.)
~ H.S
